Rate My Professor Christopher Lawrence

Professor Lawrence’s research interests include Aboriginal health and wellbeing, Indigenous resilience across Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, technology to close health gaps, Indigenous data sovereignty, cybersecurity for Indigenous communities, digital solutions for Aboriginal child and youth mental health, and Indigenous human-computer interaction. As Chief Investigator, he has secured major grants such as an NHMRC Tripartite study on Indigenous resilience and a 2016 ARC grant to leverage technology for Aboriginal health improvement and cultural reconnection, attracting nearly $10 million in funding overall. He was the 2008-2009 recipient of the Australian-American Fulbright Indigenous Scholarship, conducting research at Harvard University School of Public Health on diabetes interventions and at Howard University on emotional wellbeing for African-American youth. Key publications comprise “Cybersecurity: Putting Indigenous Peoples First” (2024, Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology), “On being iIterated: The affective demands of design participation” (2020, CHI Conference), “Designing for diversity in Aboriginal Australia: Insights from a national technology project” (2019, OzCHI), and “#thismymob: Preserving and promoting indigenous Australian cultural heritage” (2018, Mobile HCI). With 22 peer-reviewed publications and extensive keynote experience, he has pioneered the first Indigenous Graduate Attribute in higher education STEM, integrating Indigenous knowledge systems into curricula and infrastructure to foster ethical, inclusive leadership.